Personnel: Suba (piano, keyboards, programming); Cibelle, Katia B., Taciana, Joana Jones, Arnaldo Antunes (vocals); Andre Geraissati, Luis Do Monte (acoustic guitar): Kuaker, Edgard Scandurra (guitar); Mestre Ambrosio (bass, percussion, rabeca); Joao Parahyba (drums, percussion, samples).Recorded at Wah-Wah Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Includes liner notes by Suba.Personnel: Suba (piano, keyboards, programming); Joao Parahyba (sampler).Audio Remasterer: Vincent Kenis.A warm, inviting integration of Brazilian music and a left-field DJ production, SAO PAOLO CONFESSIONS is a dance extravaganza that quickens the pulse as effortlessly as it deploys a hazy, narcotic, digital bossa/lounge vibe. Suba was a Yugoslavian expatriate living in the polyglot Sao Paolo before he was killed in a fire in November 1999, so it's no surprise that his only full-length release embraces cultural diversity. This document of his final work is stocked with futuristic music rooted in centuries-old cultural patterns.At times the futurism in SAO PAOLO CONFESSIONS contests with Brazilian traditionalism, and piano flourishes share space with synthetic sonic indulgence, but his finest productions are a hybrid of sensual timbres and athletic rhythms. "Cannibals" is an Amazonian take on deep house, with an orgy of percussion careening around a sonic black hole, while in "A Normal Day (in Sao Paolo)," syncopated funk guitar licks propel a rhythmic cannonball of hi-hat loops and dirty beats. SAO PAOLO CONFESSIONS is a soundtrack to the tumultuous life of South America's most densely populated city.